67-year-old Salalah Afifa asked for her post-mortem to use her limbs to save lives • Her liver was successfully implanted in a 34-year-old woman at Beilinson Hospital

For the first time in a decade: Heavy donation was received from a Druze woman who asked for more in her life that her limb would be used to save lives, despite opposition from some of the medical procedure committee. 

67-year-old Salalah Afifa died of cardiac arrest in her home. After MDA resuscitation attempts, she was transferred to Ziv Hospital in Safed. Despite her doctors' efforts to save her, she had to contract respiratory brain death. Afifa had been on dialysis for 19 years.

She would not accept kidney donation from her children nor from another person - neither deceased nor alive. Elepha's children unanimously asked to donate her limbs and save lives. Her son said: "Mother was a noble woman. She was signed to a vapor card. She always said that if anything happened to her, she wanted to donate her organs and save lives. Mother raised us alone because our father died of cardiac arrest." 

Avifa's liver was implanted in a 39-year-old woman at Beilinson Hospital. Dialysis patients can also donate organs such as liver and sometimes lung, and save lives. 

Dr. Tamar Ashkenazi said of the case: "For the first time after more than a decade, organ donation from a Druze family was agreed. The Druze community leaders have not yet ruled on whether to allow organ donation. We know that they hold discussions with experts and doctors in an attempt to formulate a position on the issue. Family donation this week came from a place of giving and a desire to benefit the other. Quite a few Druze live today thanks to the transplants they won. Now let's hope these are the buds of reciprocity. "

Onion of the corona: Continue to transplant

At the Schneider Center for Pediatrics from the General Group, recently, during this complex, alongside the corona virus, 3 kidney transplant surgery, 2 liver and kidney transplant surgery, and three life-saving surgeries were conducted. 

The first surgery, a complex and rare transplant like the few times in the world, was performed on an 8-month-old baby who had congenital malformations and his disease progressed rapidly. In order to stabilize his condition, several invasive, complex and rare catheters needed to stop the leakage of liver fluids to "last" until he was 8 months old, so he could make a major contribution to saving his life.

In complex surgery, his father contributed to the liver. The baby was recovered from surgery in the intensive care unit and in the C Department of Pediatrics specializing in transplant child care and was released this week to his home.

Another liver transplant surgery was performed on a 7.5-year-old boy who had a genetic liver disease, from which his two brothers, who had undergone liver transplant years before, were also saved to save their lives. Kidney transplant surgery was performed on a 17-year-old girl who was treated for dialysis at the Schneider Center for Nephrology. At the end of the transplant, they will be transferred for recovery and continued intensive care unit at the Schneider Pediatric Center.